building own RPMs

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:

> It would be adequate to refuse to run as root, perhaps with an override 
> switch for some old kernel packages that insist on being built as root 
> (because they have mknod invocations).

Throw in a small helper script that sets up a rpmbuild environment in the
users home dir (create some directories, add %_topdir to ~/.rpmmacros) on
request, and you're set.

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